page.links return all links with same xref, is it something possible ?? about pymupdf HOT 6 CLOSED

Please provide a reproducing example.
So far your post leads to nothing actionable.

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Please provide a reproducing example. So far your post leads to nothing actionable.

Hard to do since it's a resume of an existing person and personal data... You have a way to workaround this to provide the example ?

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The example PDF shared with me violates the specifications for links / annotations:

Instead of giving indirect references as it should be, it provides all the links dirctly in the /Annots array.
IAW it should look like /Annots [4711 0 R 4712 0 R ...]. Instead we find:

/Annots [ <<
        /Type /Annot
        /Subtype /Link
        /Rect [ 248.31678 596.1143 279.57893 605.7143 ]
        /Border [ 0 0 0 ]
        /A <<
          /Type /Action
          /S /URI
          /URI (https://alexialabbe.fr/#projects)
        >>
      >> <<
        /Type /Annot
        /Subtype /Link
        /Rect [ 238.40349 71.17554 260.10389 80.775539 ]
        /Border [ 0 0 0 ]
        /A <<
          /Type /Action
          /S /URI
          /URI (https://blog.codein.fr/guide-rgpd-les-pratiques-essentielles-pour-assurer-la-conformite-de-votre-site-web)
        >>
      >> 
... ]

So pymupdf does recognize the links, but cannot assign an xref to them (xref=0 consequently).
You cannot update / delete links in PyMuPDF using the normal API (delete_link etc.) in such a situation - no way.
But you can edit the page's object definition source using low-level API and kill everything: for this you could delete the whole /Annots array.
This will remove everything (!!!): links, annotations and fields that may be on the page.

doc.xref_set_key(5, "Annots", "null")
            
print(doc.xref_object(5))  # 5 = page xref
            
<<
  /Type /Page
  /Parent 1 0 R
  /MediaBox [ 0 0 540 780 ]
  /Contents 134 0 R
  /Resources <<
    /ExtGState <<
      /Alpha0 10 0 R
      /Alpha1 11 0 R
    >>
    /Font <<
      /Font4 14 0 R
      /Font11 21 0 R
      /Font12 22 0 R
      /Font5 15 0 R
    >>
  >>
  /Annots null
  /Group <<
    /S /Transparency
    /CS /DeviceRGB
  >>
>>

All links are gone!

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BTW the example page looks exactly the same, but all hot areas are gone.
Also, the file size (when saving via ez_save()) goes down to 44KB (was 1 MB before).

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Thanks Jorj !!

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